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When trying to lose weight, weightlifting is valuable. It creates a buffer for people trying to lose a good amount of body fat. However, you only have 10 lbs to go. I'd focus everything on your diet and add in some cardio. You can easily tone/lift heavy after, but keep in mind there's an art to that, and from what I've…

Not science. Not even close.

I agree, depressed is the right word for it! Walking everywhere helps me stay in shape, but it feels soooo slooowww... I've started riding my bike just to cope, and that helps me get the speed rush, too. I hope your IT band issue gets figured out. I've had some short-lived IT problems, and it's no fun![/quote] You may end…

I know how you feel. I can even say that I feel depressed because running is my outlet (as is for a lot of people!). I'm not happy with being limited to walking and other stuff at the gym. I've barely run over the past 4 weeks. I have what I think is a bad IT band problem and I'm gonna be seeing an Ortho now cause it just…

Gotta beef up the lifting then....

Coming across the term "adrenal fatigue" in the past, I always associated it with exactly this, not what it "supposedly" means, which is quackery IMO. High cortisol levels, when sustained from poorly adapted stress, do cause physical problems. However, "adrenal fatigue" apparently refers to low cortisol levels, but that…

Low 40's. When I was post op last weds for laparoscopy, the nurse said "you must exercise a lot". It was dipping to the high 30's.

I usually get a blank stare and lose the persons interest when I reply "there is no secret. Just hard effort and conscious choices, being consistent and honest". No one wants to hear that, though.

Can you provide a source for these links? Just right off the top of my head my immediate thought is that of course there's some correlation between marijuana use and onset of Schizophrenia...first symptoms of schizophrenia are typical in the late teens early 20's, which is the same typical time of first or heavy marijuana…

True, true. However the % of Obese Americans is sharply higher than the % of smokers (in today's society) and have to take that into account. It takes years of smoking for it to kill you, and in that time the obesity rate has skyrocketed, while the % of Americans who smoke is going in the opposite direction.

Well, there's not a blanket answer as time spent / how much smoking , and time spent/ how much obese are going to affect the outcomes of either. If both are even (smoking for a lifetime or obesity for a lifetime) I think smoking is more likely to have concrete negative outcome (COPD, cardiac disease) than obesity.

Check the strings. Mine went "missing" and in a few weeks I'm going in for surgery to remove it...from my upper right quadrant of my abdomen.

Idk, I mean, my 3 kids (ages 10 , 10, and 8) eat "junk food" but I think it's not too unreasonable (except that Brandon boy, he ate 5 chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven last night- I have to stop such good baking). When we cook, we rarely fry. We do not buy soda to store in the house. My kids drink a lot of…

Hey, I had a steak egg and cheese McMuffin and a black coffee (love their coffee). It definitely tasted successful, lol. All about balance. It's really not that bad, at what, about 400 calories? Maybe before you found a healthy way to live you would have had a couple hashbrowns and large iced coffee with extra cream,…

This doesn't prove that it's a myth. 3500 calories refers to the deficit, and caloric needs decrease as weight is lost, so over time she's less and less of a calorie deficit. Her calories remain the same from week 1-15, but should be decreasing based on her weekly weight in order to see a straight line.

Going along with the probably accurate theory that it's genetic, how can we account for the obvious increasing number of diagnoses over the past 20 years or so? Yes, the broad diagnosis of ASD now in part accounts for 1.) many disorders (I.e. Intellectual disability, learning disability, add/adhd) are now encompassed into…

Okay, after seeing the eyesicles you've got going on there, I'm no longer going to stress about having to run 11 miles tomorrow in 45 degree weather. (I'm Floridian)

Most likely will be the Clearwater classic 1/22

I have a Garmin FR 220 and it's perfect for syncing burns on runs. It doesn't count steps and I don't want it to. If I'm curious about that, I'll look at my iphones count

Anorexia in children is almost always caused by an extremely strict mother who doesn't allow personal choices or control over anything for the child. That ones been figured out. As for childhood obesity, I think it's much more complicated.

The ELDERLY?? Oh, no way. They'd be dislocating hips right and left, literally!! -This guy, looks like a total *kitten*. But, I was able to do it x1

I think you look absolutely beautiful in all of these pictures, no matter your weight! It's about the inner strength that we gain during this process and appreciation for our bodies and souls.

The gym is not a competition; the only competition is with yourself. Screw everyone else.

Running, truthfully. 30 minutes is about 300 -400 calorie burn, depending on your weight, not to mention the amazing benefits to your cardiovascular/pulmonary health. And, you don't have to drive anywhere to do it. Just go round your hood. I say it's efficient because of the high calorie burn for the time, being…

Finished a 10k Turkey Trot this AM. Last year I did the 5k. I was doing it with a coworker who has a slower pace, and the last mile we got separated and I just decided to take off . The last mile, I ran a 7:35 pace. The ave. pace was 9:37. I could definitely do a lot better. I was talking easily (until that last mile ha)…

I think the set point theory is a decent idea, but it ends there. "The body wants to maintain weight balance". No, the body wants to maintain energy balance. It does that by building fat and burning fat, in the presence of excess energy input and a deficiency in energy input, respectively. It really is THAT simple.

I'm running a 10k that morning, no worries

Someone at work mentioned that she had abnormal liver enzyme elevation and they believe it was from these protein supplement program drinks.

I watched this entire video! Eye-opener, for sure. I'm especially intrigued by the thinness of the wall of that ventricle in the heart. (I'm a nurse and see heart failure in full swing multiple times a day). When people with this disease code (I.E. heart stops beating for any reason) we never get them back alive; their…

The part in bold...I'm interested in hearing opinions on that. It used to be (literally, when I was a kid, and I'm only 28) that the heavy kid was made fun of, shunned, etc. Now, in my children's generation, there's a significant percentage that are overweight or obese, and I guess because of the common occurrence of it,…